Nader Saiedi is professor of sociology and anthropology at Carleton College in Northfield, Minn. Born in Iran, he is the author of numerous Bahá’í books, including Gate of the Heart: Understanding the Writings of the Báb.

Richard Thomas, with Gwendolyn Etter-Lewis, co-edited Lights of the Spirit: Historical Portraits of Black Bahá’ís in North America, 1898-2000, which featured, among others, jazz great Dizzy Gillespie. He is a retired professor of history at Michigan State University.

Gwendolyn Etter-Lewis, with Richard Thomas, co-edited Lights of the Spirit: Historical Portraits of Black Bahá’ís in North America, 1898-2000, which featured, among others, jazz great Dizzy Gillespie. She is a professor of English at Miami University in Ohio.

Peter Adriance is NGO liaison for the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the U.S. and co-chair of the faith sector team, U.S. Partnership for Education for Sustainable Development.

C-SPAN recorded a two-part video of the U.S. House discussion of Resolution 1008, condemning the persecution of Bahá’ís in Iran.

A 30-minute documentary called Education Under Fire is drawing attention to Iran’s de facto policy of preventing Bahá’ís from attending universities because of their religious beliefs. The film, produced by Single Arrow Productions and co-sponsored by Amnesty International, documents the growth and struggle of the Bahá’í Institute for Higher Education, a semi-underground university formed in 1987 to give Bahá’ís in Iran […]

Michael Karlberg, associate professor of communications at Western Washington University, is the author of Beyond the Culture of Contest, which includes an examination of the Bahá’í system of governance.

Arash Abizadeh, an assistant professor of political science at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, has written on the topic of governance in the Bahá’í faith. His research focuses on democratic theory.

M. Hakan Yavuz is an assistant professor in the political science department at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. He has written about Islamic movements in Turkey and Kurdish nationalism in Turkey.